Improvement in kaleidoscopes



1.. COLLICUTT. Kaleidoscopes.

'910.147,480 Patented Feb.17.1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOHN COlililtlO'll'l, OF VEST ROXBURY, llIASSr/lOl`lUSE'l`lS, ASSlilOlt T() JOHN S. ADAMS, OF SAME PLACE.

INIPRVEMENTV IN KALEIDOSCOPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,480, dated February 17, 1974; application filed December 9, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GoLLico'rr, of lest Roxbury, in the county of Norfolk and State of lllassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Kaleidoscopes, ot' which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of ret erenee marked thereon.

y means of this invention a greater range of blended forms, shapes, colors, Ste., is provided than is found in the ordinary kaleidoscope, and its value s an article ot' amuse1 ment, and also as an aid in arts of design, is proportionately greater than the kaleidoscope .now in general use.

The nature oi' my imlnovemcnt is i'ully described below.

In the accompanyingl drawing, Figure l is a side elevation oi" my improved kaleidoscope, with a small portion represented as broken out in order to show the method ot' starting and stopping the clocknwork machinery within. Fig. 2 is a plan ci' the same with the kaleidoscope-tube and standard removed.

Similarletters et reference indicate corro spondin g parts.

a is a box, oi' any suitable nmterial. b is a standard, the lower end ol' which slips into the reste at the rear end ol' the box a. I t can be easily removed when. desirable. c7 is an ordinary kalcidoscope-tube, constructed with rcicctors in the ordinary manner. d is the opening at which the eye placed. c is a socket, into which the standard b slips when supporting the kaleidoscopetube d. Inside the box or case a is what is usually termed clock-work machinery, actuating certain portions of my device, as below described.

As I claim nothing' new in this cloclework, no portion ot' it is illustrated. excepting that shown in the broken-out portions olf Figs. l und 2.

fshows the position oi' the flywheel. r/ is a bent spring-red or regulator', as is shown (partially in broken lines) in Figs. 1 and 2. It is attaehedfrto the inner side of the box a, and, after being pressed by the pin or screw h against the lantern-'wheel k, (which meshes into a spur-wheel connected with the clockwork,) bends at a right angle, and passes ont of the box (t through the opening a. Vhen in the position shown, it prevents the machinery from starting by pressing against the wheel 7.1.

Then my device is operated, the regulator g is pulled out, and the notch g', upon the under side of the same, is set against the outer edge of the opening a', and, remaining there, allows the machinery to actuatc the kaleidoscope. m is a round table, set immediately under the tube d, and revolving by means ol a socket, in', which. iits over and upon an arbor projecting through the box a, and connected with the clockwork within.. rlhis table is or namented with. various colors and devices eal eulated to delight the eye when viewed through the tube d. Various-colored disks, either plain or ornamented in any manner, as in Fig. 4, are placed, either one or .more at a time, upon dit'- icrent parts of the table in when itis revolving', and produce pleasing effects. vp is a hub and socket, iittin g upon an arbor proceeding from the clock-work within the box c. Projecting from the hub are 'four spokes or arms, s. Fitting loosely upon these arms s are four stopples, t, which hold and carry four glass tubes or chambers, a, containing bits of colored glass., tinsel, Sec. The stopples t and arms s are at tached to cach other by spiral springs r, A short rod, fw, proiects from each stopple f, and drags upon the upper surface of the box a. As the stopple t and glass chamber u reach the table my, the rod le strikes a bridge, y, over which it rides, and when droppin-g` upon the other side shakes up the contents ofthe chamn ber u, so as to present a new view cach time it passes under the tube (L Fig. 3, which is a vertical section eut through the arm. s and bridgepy, well illustrates the operation of the spring e and rod u' as the latter is passing over the bridge y.

0f course I do not confine myself to any par ticular number et' glass-chambers.

1t will readily be seen that, upon drawing out the regulator g, and catching it upon the box c, the clockwork starts and causes the table m andthe chambers u te revolve. The

table m, having more or less disks upon it, pleases the eye until a chamber, u, passes over the surface, when an entirely different View is presented, which, owing to the shaking it receives, as it passes over the bridge y, is never repeated. Thus an indefinitenumber of views, beautifully blended, may be produced, all appearing automatically.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The rotating table Im, actuated by ordinary clock-Work machinery, and placed under the kaleidoscope-tube d, constructed and arranged substantially as described.

2. The combination, With the hub p and arms s, ofthe stopples t and glass-chamber u,

aboye set forth.

JOHN' COLLICO'IT. Witnesses:

HENRY W. WrLLLms, WrLLiAMs. 

